xeoran said:
Or less sophisticated - you cannot jam a piece of string. . .
Fedayeen
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Or less sophisticated - you cannot jam a piece of string. . .
Locutus9956
Mongoose
True but you can cut it... or shoot the person standing around whistling serupticiously with a long string trailing from your tank 
EmperorNortonII said:
Indeed, they have been around for a while. They are also the basis for the Fedyakin in Dune. . .
as for IEDs being overpowered - you ever seen one go up, its what the IRA used all those years. if it was sophisticated it wouldnt be an IED and IED stands for improvised explosive device. yes you can use mobiles to detonate them but the british forces have been jamming mobile signals for years with the ECM they have, even mobile ECM packs for carrying on smoeones back (and they weigh alot 
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)OK, they had some really old Russian stuff, T-55s, BMP-1s, and BTR-60s. But not a modern(ish) tank force in the way Iraq did.
But to be fair the Iranians are now preparing for an American invasion, as they think the US want to do to them what they have done to Iraq, ie make it a land of democracy and happiness and everyone gets a free mountain bike.
Whether it'll be an official invasion or just bombing is anyones guess, but there's a big terrorist training camp full of fanatics outside Baghdad that the Pentagon really want to unleash on Iran. Getting rid of that camp was the pre-condition Iran had for helping stabilise Iraq and making their nuclear program transparent.
But to be fair the Iranians are now preparing for an American invasion, as they think the US want to do to them what they have done to Iraq, ie make it a land of democracy and happiness and everyone gets a free mountain bike.
Whether it'll be an official invasion or just bombing is anyones guess, but there's a big terrorist training camp full of fanatics outside Baghdad that the Pentagon really want to unleash on Iran. Getting rid of that camp was the pre-condition Iran had for helping stabilise Iraq and making their nuclear program transparent.
Locutus9956
Mongoose
Lets not start this sort of political argument guys it will only end in tears....
Okay okay...
though I was speaking from a point of tactics and strategic placement... Ben2 was looking more like he was politics.
Well, they've started equipping HMMWVs over in OIF (Operation Iraqi Freedom) with jammers designed to target cellphone based IEDs.
Sophisticated is what you make of it, in all honesty. String based IEDs, Cellphone... heck, there's a couple of cases of IR tigger devices on some IEDs.
though I was speaking from a point of tactics and strategic placement... Ben2 was looking more like he was politics.
katadderas said:
Well, they've started equipping HMMWVs over in OIF (Operation Iraqi Freedom) with jammers designed to target cellphone based IEDs.
Sophisticated is what you make of it, in all honesty. String based IEDs, Cellphone... heck, there's a couple of cases of IR tigger devices on some IEDs.
you heard about the suicide bombers with mercury tilt switches - soldier gets him to halt and put his hands up, the switch attached to the arm sets bomb off when arms go up.
the thing with IEDs though is becuase they are improvised they tend to be less stable, hence the question about running and diving around a battlefield or being shot whilst carrying one.
the thing with IEDs though is becuase they are improvised they tend to be less stable, hence the question about running and diving around a battlefield or being shot whilst carrying one.
Fedayeen in various spellings anf forms have been around for centuries
IEDs can be anything from a 122mm shell burried in the road up to some factory built devices. Calling them IEDs is just a presentation thing.
My question about the Feds is more basic - according to Hiros playtest card they have a 4+ hit and a 7 kill but no armour, which means they dont get any benefit from their 7+ kill as they all die on 4+ hits. The models have armour, should they have an armour stat??
IEDs can be anything from a 122mm shell burried in the road up to some factory built devices. Calling them IEDs is just a presentation thing.
My question about the Feds is more basic - according to Hiros playtest card they have a 4+ hit and a 7 kill but no armour, which means they dont get any benefit from their 7+ kill as they all die on 4+ hits. The models have armour, should they have an armour stat??
